Biology, Sociology, Geology by Computational Physicists

Volume 1

By: George Zaslavsky, Albert Luo, Dietrich Stauffer, Jorge de Sa Martins, Paulo de Oliveira

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The book requires only rudimentary physics knowledge but ability to program computers creatively and to keep the mind open to simple and not so simple models, based in individuals, for the living world around us.

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* Contains and explains programs
* Based on recent discoveries
* Little special knowledge required besides programming
* Suitable for undergraduate and graduate research projects

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Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Evolution	p. 5
Linearity	p. 6
Chaos	p. 10
Nonlinearity	p. 13
The edge of chaos	p. 20
Complexity and criticality	p. 24
Mean-field theories	p. 32
Scaling	p. 34
Biological evolution	p. 40
A simple evolutionary model	p. 49
Another simple model	p. 58
Conclusions	p. 69
Biological Ageing	p. 71
Facts and theories	p. 71
Facts	p. 71
Theories	p. 74
Penna model: asexual	p. 77
Basic model	p. 77
Applications and modifications	p. 80
Plasticity	p. 82
Penna model: sexual	p. 84
Basic model	p. 84
Applications and modifications	p. 86
Scaling	p. 93
Other models	p. 94
Additional remarks	p. 97
Eve effect	p. 97
Antagonistic pleiotropy	p. 98
Grandmother effect	p. 99
Conclusions	p. 101
Biological Speciation	p. 103
Sympatric speciation	p. 104
Minimal model: Speciation defined by a single bit	p. 105
Speciation defined by a single phenotypic trait	p. 107
Speciation in a food chain	p. 112
Phase transition in the sympatric speciation process	p. 118
Models with two phenotypic traits	p. 126
Conclusions	p. 127
Parapatric speciation	p. 129
Many-species models	p. 134
The Bak-Sneppen model	p. 135
Lineage branching	p. 139
Ecosystems	p. 145
Languages	p. 151
Empirical facts	p. 151
Differential equations	p. 152
Agent-based simulations	p. 156
Two languages	p. 157
Many languages: Homogeneous systems	p. 159
Many languages: Mixing, nucleation, interface	p. 165
Wang-Minett model	p. 170
Additional remarks	p. 171
Conclusions	p. 177
Social Sciences	p. 179
Retirement demography	p. 180
Mortality and birth rates	p. 180
Extrapolation	p. 182
Mortality deceleration?	p. 184
Conclusions	p. 186
Self-organisation of hierarchies	p. 186
Opinion dynamics	p. 190
Before 2000	p. 190
Three recent models	p. 192
Additional remarks	p. 198
Conclusions	p. 211
Traffic jams	p. 212
Networks	p. 214
Small world	p. 214
Scale free (BA)	p. 215
Selected properties of BA networks	p. 217
Modifications of BA networks	p. 217
Neural networks	p. 219
Social percolation	p. 222
Legal physics	p. 225
Earthquakes	p. 227
Computational models for earthquakes	p. 228
Short-range interactions	p. 229
Long-range interactions	p. 231
The Rundle-Jackson-Brown model	p. 232
Precursory dynamics	p. 233
Conclusion	p. 237
Summary	p. 239
Appendix: Programs	p. 241
Single-bit handling	p. 241
Ageing in Penna model	p. 242
Bak-Sneppen evolution	p. 246
Language competition	p. 247
Retirement demography	p. 250
Car traffic	p. 252
Scale-free networks	p. 254
Neural Hopfield-Hebb networks	p. 256
References	p. 259
Subject Index	p. 273
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